24. Feb, 2010
Categories: Small Business
by Gary Cope
I founded my business, CWI Media, in 2005. Though, at the time, it was called CWI Media & Marketing. In 2009 the business split into two separate companies and I renamed mine CWI Media. For years it was really an informal business, mostly freelance work for a handful of clients. Last year, however, business started [...]
12. Feb, 2010
Categories: Small Business, Social Media
by Gary Cope
If your Web site crashed, or went down for any significant length of time, are you prepared with a remotely hosted back-up site, or what we call a “dark site?” If you are, congratulations! You can stop reading this post and go about your day. If you do not have a dark site, keep reading… [...]
30. Jan, 2010
Categories: Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube
by Gary Cope
I’ve gone dark. I’m off the grid. I’ve become a ghost. Well, sort of. I am speaking, of course, about social media and the ever-increasing privacy concerns that come with posting information about your life online. It started some time ago with Facebook and MySpace. My profiles were at one time public and anyone could [...]
25. Jan, 2010
Categories: Social Media
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope We all know one. A person on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn who abuses their status as your social media “friend” by inviting you to join Facebook fan pages every other day, sending out 500 Tweets before lunch, or even worse, sharing links to get-rich-quick schemes. There are a couple of folks that [...]
23. Jul, 2009
Categories: Social Media
by Gary Cope
Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links businessbullpen: This is good commentary from Marco Arment, the Lead Developer of Tumblr, on some of the reasons why you should think twice before using URL shorteners. Digg has apparently been a URL-shortener recently, but they’ve just angered a lot of people by changing the behavior of their shortened [...]
29. May, 2009
Categories: Google, SEO, Yahoo
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope What a difference being indexed makes! I’m speaking, of course, about a Web site being indexed by Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN, the big four search engines. I manage several Web sites, but the biggest one in terms of traffic was not indexed and was actually blocking search engine robots from indexing [...]
27. May, 2009
Categories: Google
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope I’ve been using Google News for quite some time and earlier this year, Google – the dominant search engine – began including ads on the right column of its news search results pages. But today, I noticed something new … at least it was new to me. My girlfriend will be the [...]
26. May, 2009
Categories: Social Media, URL Shorteners
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope Remember Tiny URL? I do. I remember it like it was yesterday … well, it was about six months ago, but in the world of social media six months feels more like decade. I discovered a new URL-shortening tool called bit.ly. I have seen it before and even used it because it’s [...]
04. May, 2009
Categories: Social Media, Twitter, Uncategorized
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope Since joining Twitter in January 2008, I have posted more than 4,100 Tweets, received more than 500 “follow” notification e-mails and currently have 360 followers. At first, I did my best to weed out (i.e. block) the accounts using Twitter for the wrong reasons such as spamming, shameless self promotion or agressively [...]
08. Jan, 2009
Categories: Social Media, TwitPic, Twitter
by Gary Cope
By Gary Cope In part two of our series on “Connecting your cell phone to your social networking sites” we show you how to post pictures to your Twitter account using a third-party application called TwitPic. Now, with any third party application, you must trust the application before you use it. Why? Because to use [...]
